20 MARCH 1920, Page 12

" A DOCTOR IN SUSSEX."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—The poesy from a sampler quoted in your interesting

review of Sussex in Bygone Days (Dr. Blaker's reminiscences) in your issue of March 6th recalls the form given in Ten Thou- sand a Year, when Tittlebat Titmouse astonished Miss Quirk

by writing in her album :-

" Tittlebat Titmouse Is My name,

England Is My Nation, London Is My dwelling-Place,

And Christ Is My Salvation.

Tittlebat Titmouse, • halitbi lodge."

(Book the Second, ch. 9.) This was written in 1838 (Book the Third, ch. 2).

Many readers will be sorry to see the notice in the obituary columns of the death of Dr. Blaker on the 12th inst. in his

eighty-sixth year.—I am, Sir, &c., EDWARD H. QUICHE. 13 South Norwood Hill, S.E. 25.